Improvement in cane-presses



E. POWELL.

Cane Mill.

Patented April 10, 1860.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE EUGENE POWELL, OF OONNEAUTVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN CAN E PRESSES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 2?,830, dated April 10, 1860.

is a front sectional view of the same, taken in the line 3 y, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre sponding parts in the several figures.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

A represents a frame, which may be of castiron, and constructed in any proper way to support the working parts. In the upper part of this frame A a cylinder, B, is placed, the journals a of which are fitted in permanent bearings in the frame A.

011 the outer end of each journal a a toothed wheel, .0, is placed, and these wheels gear into pinions D at the ends of cylinders D, the journals b of which are fitted in curved orsegment barsEE-one at each side of the frame A. The bars E E rest at one end on ledges or projections 0 on the frame, and the opposite ends rest on taper keys din the frame. The centers of the bars E E at their under sides rest on setscrews 6 6, both of which are shown in Fig. 2.

There are five cylinders D, (shown in Figs. 1 and 3,) and it will be seen that they are considerably smaller in diameter than the cylinder B. The bars E E are by means of the taper keys (1 and set-screws e 0 so adjusted in the frame A that the cylinders D will gradually approach nearer the large cylinder B from the feed to the discharge end of the machine* that is to say, the cylinder D at the feed end of the machine is farther from the cylinder B than any of the othersand the others consecutively approach nearer the cylinder B, each cylinder a trifle nearer than the one in front of it, so as to form a passage or space gradually decreasing in height between the cylinder B and the cylinders D. Thisfwill be fully understood by referring to Fig. 1.

The smaller cylinders, D, are of course parallel with the larger one, B, and the former do not quite touch each other, as will be seen by referring to Fig. 1.

At each side of the frame A there is secured a semicircular plate, E, and these plates eX- tend down below the upper parts of the ends of the cylinders D, and may be described as forming sides to the space between the large and small cylinders. Both of these plates E E are shown in Fig. 2.

In the frame A there is secured a sheetmetal apron, F. This apron extends under neath the cylinders D, and is provided at each side with a side piece, so as to form a basin to receive the juice.

To the feed end of the frame A there is secured a transverse plate, G, to which tubes H are fitted. Any proper number of tubes H may be employed. They are placed in ahorizontal line, which is directly opposite the enlarged end of the space between the cylinder B and the cylinders D, as shown clearly in Fig. 1. The plate G covers the feed-entrance to the space above mentioned. The toothed wheel C at one side of the machine gears into two pinions, D D, of cylinders D, while the wheel 0 at the opposite side of the machine gears into the three pinions D of the remain ing three cylinders D.

The operation is as follows: The cane (shown in red) is fed by the operator through the tubes E into the space between the cylinder B and the cylinders D, the former being rotated by any convenient power in the direction indicated by the arrows. The cane, in passing between the cylinder B and cylinders I), is subjected to a series of pressures corresponding in number to the number of cylinders D, each pressure being gradually increased in consequence of the gradually-decreasing space between the cylinders D and the cylinder B, as previously described. The juice, in consequence of this arrangement, will be fully eX- pressed from the caneand will pass down into the basin F. The plate G" prevents the juice from being forced out at the feed end of the machinea contingency which would otherwise occur. This plate, of course, it will be seen, involves the necessity for the use of tubes H, or their equivalents, in order to facilitate the feeding of the cane into the space between the cylinders. The semicircular plates E E prevent the cane from escaping laterally out v The combination, with the basin F, platesfrom the machine or from between the cylin E E, cylinders D, and cylinder 13, of the ders, and thereby insures a full and perfect curved plate G, when provided with tubes H, action of the cylinders upon it. The juice esas and for the purpose herein shown and decapes from the basin F through any proper scribed. opening and falls into a suitable receptacle prepared to receive it.

Having thus described my invention, what WVitnesses: I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let- F; W. ELLSWORTH, ters Patent, isl FRANK MANIOR.

EUGENE POWELL. 

